Epistemology, Religious
The epistemology of religion, as practiced by philosophers, is seldom concerned with the sorts of epistemological questions that emerge on a practical level in ordinary religio...
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Philosophy of Religion
Analytical "philosophy of religion," still in its infancy in the 1960s, has developed markedly since then. Other approaches have certainly continued to play a part...
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Philosophy of Religion [addendum]
Philosophy of religion has recently focused on a range of issues regarding God: semantic (concerning the meaning of the term God), metaphysical (concerning the realit...
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Philosophy of Religion, History Of
It is not easy to say when strictly philosophical thought about religion began, for religion has always involved thought or belief of some kind. Even in other fields...
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Philosophy of Religion, History of [addendum]
A remarkable revival of interest in philosophy of religion occurred during the final third of the twentieth century. The demise of logical positivism had ...
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Philosophy of Religion, Problems Of
The term philosophy of religion is a relative newcomer to the philosophical lexicon, but what is now so designated is as old as philosophy itself. One of the earlie...
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Religion, Psychological Explanations Of
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the chief impact of science on religion came from the revised picture of the cosmos that emerged from developments i...
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Religion, Psychological Explanations of [addendum]
During the last few decades of the twentieth century scientific ability to explore the brain directly increased dramatically, so neuroscientific disc...
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Philosophers, whether they are atheists, or believers have always been eager to discuss the existence of God. Some philosophers, such as St Thomas Aquinas, and St Anselm, believe that we have proven...
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